Tom Rachman was born in London and raised in Vancouver, Canada. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the Columbia School of Journalism, he has been a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, stationed in Rome. From 2006 to 2008, he worked as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He lives in Rome.

The Imperfectionsists (2010) is his first novel; The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (2014) is his second. (Adapted from the publisher and Wikipedia. Retrieved 6/09/2014.)